Arational Belief Convergence

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globals [ believer-list]
turtles-own [friends belief discriminating-value pop-my-friends ]

to setup
  ca
  reset-ticks
  ;; ugly coding but more functional for switching between fixed and non-fixed populations
  ask patches [set pcolor blue + random-float 3 if random 100 < density  [sprout 1] ] ask turtles [set-up-routine]
 ;  crt 100 [set-up-routine] ;; for fixed population
  assign-dogmatists
  set believer-list [] ;; believer-list is needed for looking at how beliefs are more or less popular over time. Esp useful for fixed pop with dogmatists.
  let n 0
  repeat count turtles
    [set believer-list lput n believer-list
      set n n + 1]
if max-discrim-value >= 1 [user-message "can't have a max-discriminating-value equal to or greater than 1.0"]
if max-pop-my-friends >= 1 [user-message "can't have a max-pop-my-friends equal to or greater than 1.0"]
end 

to go ;; turtles: 1. decide their character 2. find their friend bias  3. influence others  4. be influenced
  find-friends ;; turtles find their friends
  influence
  update-color
  plot-belief
  plot-pop-by-belief
  if pop-with-shared-belief = count turtles [ end-routine stop] ;; this is for converging on a single belief or just letting the model run with num-dog > 1
  ;if beliefs-in-circulation  = num-dog [stop] ;; this is for converging on as many beliefs as there are dogmatists
  if new-generations? [
    die-and-replace]
  tick
end 

to set-up-routine
  move-to one-of patches
  if any? other turtles-here [set-up-routine]
    set size .75
    set color wrap-color who
    set belief who
    ;;; if you want turtles to be the same, adjust "random-float" from the following two lines as needed.
    set discriminating-value random-float max-discrim-value ;
    set pop-my-friends random-float max-pop-my-friends   ;
end 

to assign-dogmatists
  ask n-of num-dog turtles [set discriminating-value 0]
end 

to end-routine
  type "difference between winning turtle discriminating value and lowest discriminating value "
    print discrim-diff
    type "difference between highest and lowest discriminating value "
    print max-discrim-diff
    type "ratio of winner to max "
    print (discrim-diff / max-discrim-diff)
    type "winner is # " write winner-in-list-PBC print " in list of discriminating values"
    type "also winner is # " write winner-in-list-audience type " in list of audience size"
end 

to die-and-replace
  ask turtles [
    if (random-float 1.0 < replacement-rate)[
      hatch 1 [
       set-up-routine]
      die]
  ]
end 

;; a smattering of useful reporters
;; reporters are designed to work without replacing turtles, i.e. with "new-generations?" switched off.
;; in the case that a consensus is reached with "new-generations?" switched on and the winning turtle has died, the following reporters will throw errors.

to-report count-believers
  let n []
  foreach believer-list [ i -> set n lput (count turtles with [belief = i]) n]
  report (map [j -> j / length n] n)
end 

to-report winner-in-list-audience
  report ((position [pop-my-friends] of turtle final-belief (sort [pop-my-friends] of turtles)) + 1)
end 

to-report winner-in-list-PBC
  report ((position [discriminating-value] of turtle final-belief (sort [discriminating-value] of turtles)) + 1)
end 

to-report winner-PBC
  report [discriminating-value] of turtle final-belief
end 

to-report winner-audience
  report [pop-my-friends] of turtle final-belief
end 

to-report max-discrim-diff
  let l [discriminating-value] of turtles
  report (max l) - (min l)
end 

to-report discrim-diff
  report [discriminating-value] of turtle final-belief - min-discrim-value
end 

to-report min-discrim-value
  report min [discriminating-value] of turtles
end 

to-report low-discrim-agent
  report [who] of turtles with [discriminating-value = min-discrim-value]
end 

to-report list-of-beliefs
  report sort remove-duplicates [belief] of turtles
end 

to-report final-belief
  report item 0 list-of-beliefs
end 

to-report pop-with-shared-belief
  let b-list []
  set b-list [belief] of turtles
  let m []
  set m modes b-list
  if length m > 1 [set m (list min m)]
  let t 0
  foreach b-list [ ?1 -> if member? ?1 m [set t t + 1] ]
  report t
end 

to-report beliefs-in-circulation
  let m remove-duplicates [belief] of turtles
  report length m
end 

;;; main mechanisms for the model

to find-friends
  ask turtles [set friends n-of round (pop-my-friends * count turtles) other turtles]
end 

to influence ;; mechanism of belief change. turtle asks friends to adopt belief. friends roll dice to see if that happens
  ask turtles [
    if friends != 0[
    ask friends  [
      let rf random-float 1.0
      if rf < discriminating-value [ set belief [belief] of myself]
    ]
  ]
]
end 

to update-color ;; this makes convergence more visible with the turtles
  ask turtles[
    set color belief]
end 


;;; now to do some plotting

to plot-belief
set-current-plot "hist-plot"
histogram [belief] of turtles
end 

to plot-pop-by-belief
set-current-plot "pop-by-belief"
  set-plot-pen-mode 2
  plotxy  (1 - (beliefs-in-circulation / count turtles)) (pop-with-shared-belief / count turtles) ;beliefs-in-circulation
end 

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